In an intriguing assessment of presidential legacies, a panel of experts specializing in the American presidency has placed President Joe Biden as the 14th-best president in U.S. history, while his potential rival in the 2024 election, former President Donald Trump, was ranked last.
The findings come from the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey, conducted between November 15 and December 31, drawing on the insights of current and recent members of the Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
This group of social science experts, who focus on presidential politics, gave Abraham Lincoln the top spot as America’s greatest president, highlighting his leadership during one of the nation’s most tumultuous periods. President Biden’s ranking places him ahead of notable figures such as Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Ulysses S. Grant. Meanwhile, former President Barack Obama secured the seventh spot, marking a jump of eight positions from the previous year’s polling.
At the other end of the spectrum, Donald Trump received the survey’s lowest ranking, placing him at 45th. This puts him even below James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, and William Henry Harrison – presidents often critiqued for their ineffectual leadership.
The survey also explored the partisan and ideological differences among the respondents, concluding that such differences did “not tend to make a major difference overall” in the presidential rankings. Despite this, a noticeable partisan divide was evident in the assessments of Obama and Biden. Democrat respondents placed them significantly higher, at an average of sixth and 13th places respectively, compared to Republicans, who ranked them at 15th and 30th.
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Ywn anything to bash trump , anything.
Experts ??? Who are these so called experts ?!
Putting Biden in 14th and then you take them seriously & make this headlines ??
We all know Biden is the biggest disaster that ever happened. 14th? Are you kidding me
“Presidential Experts” AKA liberals with a hidden political agenda. Are they out of their mind?! To put the current one ahead of Reagan?!
Yanky’s: It might be true, however that’s speculation. Anything that doesn’t conform with your idol-worship of Trump is automatically wrong, right?
Don’t know about Biden, but they certainly got trump correct
Experts responding to the survey who self-identified as conservatives rated Biden No. 30, while liberals put him 13th and moderates ranked him 20th. All three of those same groups ranked Trump, whose presidency was marked by his flouting of historical norms, in the bottom five.
Conservatives rated Trump No. 41, while liberals put him 45th and moderates ranked him 45th.
Obviously, if Obama’s rank jumped 8 places since last year, this poll is meaningless.
The total inversion of emes and its opposite, in this article, is stunning.
“Experts”?! What garbage. What makes them experts? What is their expertise exactly? Ranking presidents is a question of values, not expertise, and these people’s values are clearly corrupt, just like Jackk’s values. “Self-identified conservatives” is a joke. Maybe they’re conservative in their own minds, but not in the real world.
Biden is the worst president since Woodrow Wilson, and 0bama is the second-worst. Meanwhile Trump’s objective performance, shorn of all the hysterical rhetoric on both sides, makes him the best president since Coolidge.
President Biden’s ranking places him ahead of notable figures such as Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Ulysses S. Grant.
This says it all. The fact that they could rank Wilson, one of the worst presidents ever, as a “notable figure” comparable to Reagan and Grant, tells us all we need to know about their characters and their alleged expertise.